Shadowy Syrian Group Says It Targeted Three U.S. Bases With Rockets, D…
A shadowy Syrian armed group announced on August 12 that it had attacked three bases of the United States-led coalition in the governorates of Deir Ezzor and al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria.
In a statement, the group, which calls itself the Popular Resistance of the Eastern Region (PR-EG), said that its fighters had targeted the coalition base at Conoco gas plan in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside with five rockets, and fired four others at the Green Village base in the al-Omar oil fields in the southeastern countryside of the governorate.
The group added that its fighters attacked a base of the coalition near al-Shaddadi in the southern al-Hasakah countryside with a rocket and a number of suicide drones.
A loud blast was heard near the coalition base in al-Shaddadi late on August 10, with Sputnik reporting an explosion at an ammunition depot of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces located nearby.
On August 12, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the coalition base at the Conoco gas plant was attacked with rockets. However, there were no reports of any attack against the Green Village base in al-Omar oil fields.
The PR-EG first appeared around five years ago. Several reports linked the group to the Syrian intelligence or the Quds Force, the extraterritorial branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The group vowed in its statement that its attacks on “U.S. occupation forces” will continue until Syrian territory is liberated.
The U.S.-led coalition has not yet commented on the claims made by the PR-EG. Usually, the coalition acknowledges any attack on its bases in Syria within a few days.
The Syrian government does not approve of the U.S. military deployment in the country, which includes the bases in the northeastern region in addition to a garrison located at a strategic international highway in the southeastern area of al-Tanf.
The reports of new attacks on the U.S. bases in northeastern Syria came amid high tensions in the region. The U.S.-led coalition and its proxies have been amassing their forces along the contact line with government-held areas in Deir Ezzor for the last two months. In addition, several recent reports in Western media talked about an alleged Syrian-Iranian plot to renew attacks against coalition bases in the region.
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